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The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) has laid to rest the controversy over winning 25 percent of votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, as requirement for winning the presidential election in Nigeria.
The PEPT said that scoring 25 per cent was not constitutionally obligatory in the process for becoming president of Nigeria.
The Justice Tsammani-led panel, said the voters in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja were equal to every other voter in the states in Nigeria, hence, Abuja had no special status.
Recall that the Labour Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidates submitted that winning 25% of the FCT votes, in addition to meeting other requirements, was a necessary requirement of being declared winner in a presidential election.